Doesn't Even Phase Us Anymore

An event like what happened to Bart this morning used to send us into all kinds of emotional directions...

He is at a meeting of THE most important leaders in the Annual Conference of our denomination today and he took Jimmy with him. The Bishop is there, the district superintendents, and the leadership of all of the significant committees.

I talked to him at lunch time and he told me that they had only been at the meeting for an hour when the police showed up. Apparently someone in the church had called 911. Well, since the ONLY persno at the church who was not at the meeting was our 15 year old son, we think he did it, even though he vehemently denied us. And this is one of our best behaved kids -- who also shoplifted some gum and had to return it to the store yesterday...

All the thoughts of "what are people going to think" that we had 10 years ago when we started this journey don't even come into play anymore. We just shrug our shoulders, sometimes even chuckle a little, and move on. Becuase after what we've been through in court, etc., a 911 call is nothing.

But it would be nice to go a week without something happening that is potentially humiliating might be nice.